Hull, Burling 'Volta': The Billion Dollar Bait ©1977 Volcanda Associates, FL Softcover, 6x9", 205 pages

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Comments: From the editor: "This shocking book exposes the tricks and deceptions that the fraud spirit medium ministers and fake psychics are working on the unsuspecting public."

Contents (from book ToC):

16 Points Of Interest Revealed In This Book

16 I Introduction And Background
16 1. 50,000 War Dead-The Billion Dollar Bait
18 2. Fox Sisters Spirit Racket

24 II The Rackets Flourish
24 1 S500 “Doctors of Divinity” Certificates
27 2 Spirit Medium Minister Racket
32 3 The Spiritual Reader
33 The Psychological Reading as Sold by the so-called “School for Thievery“
44 4 Crook’s Supply House
49 5 Fee Charging Psychic Racket

56 III Various Methods, Devices And Techniques Used By Fraud Spirit Mediums And Related Rackets
56 Early Methods of Fraud Mediums
58 Spirit Medium Racket for Cash
59 Medium Cop-Out Excuses
59 Take Over Contortions
60 The Spirit is Weak at First
61 Letters in the Air
62 Telepathic Insights
65 Cheer-up Techniques to “Snow you“
66 Spirit Controls Work Gratis
68 Those Mysterious Spirit Raps
73 Dr Carrington Psychic Authority
76 Houdini Exposes Medium “M“
78 Mediumistic Services for Cash
78 1 Predictions
79 2 Financial Counselling
79 3 Healing Services
80 4 Spirit Photographs
80 5 Personalized Paintings
81 6 Spirit Slate Writing The Great Come-On
84 7 Spirit Slate Writing Phenomena
88 8 Spirit Flower Manifestation
94 9 Crystal Gazing
96 Cassadaga-Spirit Community
99 The Ectoplasm Which Really Disappeared
104 Blackmail
108 Malicious Scare Techniques to Terrorize Wives and Mothers
112 Interference by Federal Communication Commission
114 Fraud via US Mail
116 Electronic Trick Telepathy
118 Cheat Your Friends at Cards for Big Money
119 Pros and Phonies
120 The Jinx Liquid that Backfired
122 The Yes Yes Yes Yes Girls
125 Levitation by Transcendental Meditation???

128 IV Methods Sometimes Used By Fraudulent Mediums As Disclosed By Various Famous Investigators Of The Rackets
128 The Burling Hull Books
141 Fifty Sealed Message Reading Methods
141 Sealed Message Reading Acts
146 The Invisible Hand Writes
156 George LaFollette’s - The Truth About Spiritualism
162 Mrs Houdini
171 Harry Houdini-Spirit Investigator
176 W.J. Nixon’s Nude Medium Expose

204 Author's Conclusion